This week, we said “hi” to October. We took an outsider artist’s practice of gifting CDRs, and made it digital by working with Chicago artist Willis Earl Beal to create a new BitTorrent Bundle: a 5-track EP featuring music from his upcoming film Principles of a Protagonist. (Get it here.) We also introduced the world to Aaron Cohen,…
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Chicago native Willis Earl Beal started out as a street performer. Like most of us, he wanted to be heard. Unlike most of us, he left a trail of homemade novels, art and CD-Rs across America. And last year, his practice of gifting handmade music got him an audience; the cover of Found magazine, a feature in…